Family Therapy

In a well functioning family, each member retains his or her individuality but not at the expense of losing the feeling of belonging to a family. 

• True

• False

The Wiltwyck experiments revealed the need for family reorganisation and for some effective form of hierarchy among family members for a family system to move from being dysfunctional to functional. 

• True

• False

The spousal, parental, and sibling subsystems are the most prominent and important subsystems in the family. The spousal susbystem in particular offers a key regarding family stability.

• True

• False

Circular causality is defined as; forces moving in many directions simultaneously, not simply a single event caused by a previous one. Example, within a family, any action by one member affects all other members and the family as a whole; each members response in turn prompts other responses that affect all other members, whose further reactions provoke still other responses, and so forth. such a reverberating efect in turn affects the first person in a continuous series of circular loops or recurring chains of influence. 

• True

• False

Milton Erikson joined with patients, believing in their inherent wisdom to help themselves once shown how and gaing their trust. 

• True

• False

Each family member may belong to several subgroups at the same time.

• True

• False

This helped families become aware of repetitive beliefs and behaviour patterns and to see themselves within a relational context?

• True

• False

Colapinto contends that the stereotypic division of instrumental versus expressive roles is not held up as an ideal by Minuchin, but rather that Minuchin believes all families need some kind of structure, some kind of hierarchy, somw degree of differentiation beteween subsystems.  

• True

• False

Hare-Mustin believes Minuchin himself models the male executive functions while working with families, in effect demanding that the father resume control of the family and exert leadership much as Minuchin leads and directs the therapeutic session. 

• True

• False

According to Structural Family Therapy, familes need some form of internal organisation that dictates how, when, and to whom to relate. 

• True

• False

The structure of the family represents the sum of the operational rules the family has evolved for carrying out its important functions. 

• True

• False

A dysfunctional family by definition has failed to fulfil its purpose of nurturing the growth of its members

• True

• False

The ideas of MRI comes largely from systems theory, cybernetic and information theory. 

• True

• False

Two conditions must be present for a paradoxical injunction exist: 1 the participants must have a close complementary relationship and 2) the recipient of the injunction cannot sidesteop or otherwise avoid responing to the communicaiton or metacommuniction. 

• True

• False

If it is a relationship based on equality the interactive patterns is symmetrical. 

• True

• False

According to Structural Family Therapy, what needs to happen before an individual's symptoms can be reduced or extinguished?

• The culprit must be identified

• Structural changes must occur

• A DSM diagnosis must be presented to the client

• Limits to confidentiality and a payment plan must be discussed

Haley-Madanes strategic therapy uses manipulation and emphasising the positives as theraputic strategies.  

• True

• False

First order cybernetics grew out of communication engineering and computer science as a means of undertanding the general principles of how systems of all kinds are self regulated and thus maintain their stability.  Attention was directed toward structure - patterns of organisation- and control through feedback cycles.

• False

• True

• Not sure

A theraputic impasse is when one team member of strutegic therapy enters the room and addresses the primary therapist or the clients, perhapes sideing with the client to increase the likelihoood that forthcoming directive from teh observer will be implemented. 

• True

• False

The major focus of the BFT center is on solving a problem and or reducing presenting syptoms, rather than seekign changes in teh overal family system

• True

• False

The book Pragmatic of human communiction ws awritten by Walzlawick, Beavin and Jackson in 1967.

• True

• False

The Macy Conferences made an important breakthrough by providing a new and exciting epistemology for conceptualising how systems retain their stabiity through?

• Self regulation

• Past performance

• Future performance

• Preprogrammed goal

MRI bried therapy is not a team effort

• True

• False

Cybernetics is the study of methods of feedback control within a system, especially the flow of information through 

• Computers

• Feedback loops

• Machines

• Complex systems

If a relationship is based on oppositional exchange the pattern is complementarty.

• True

• False

The specific composition of any subsystem is not nearly as important as the clarity of its boundaries.

• True

• False

Restraining strategy is the same as go slow

• True

• False

Who is the main figure associated with Structural Family Therapy?

• Gregory Bateson

• Jay Hayley

• Mara Selvini-Palazzoli

• Salvador Minuchin

From the structural perspective, family dysfunction generally involves boundary issues and the related concerns of: (a) enmeshment (b) disengagement (c) alignments (d) power (e) coalitions

• All of the above

• A, b, d, e

• A, b, c, d

• None of the above

First order cybernetics came from?

• Atomic science

• Chemical engineering

• Communication engineering and computer science

• Physics and maths

Most family systems fall somewhere along the continuum between _________ (diffuse boundaries) and ____________ (rigid boundaries). 

• Paradox; counter-paradox

• Generic; idiosyncratic

• Enmeshment; disengagement

• First-order change; second-order change

If content is the language of linear causality, process is the language of ?

• First order cybernetics

• Systems implications

• Interpersonal events

• Circular causality

_______________ refers to an extreme form of proximity and intensity in family interactions in which members are overconcerned and overinvolved  in each other's lives

Bateson's contribution to family therapy was?

• Conjoint family therapy

• Hospitalising mothers of schizophrenic patients on clinic grounds

• Double bind theory of schizophrenia

• Feedback mechanisms

Who coined the term cybernetics?

• Gregory Bateson

• Norbert Wiener

• Jay Haley

• Margaret Mead

Minuchin reserves the label of pathological for those families who, when faced with a stressful situation, ________ the rigidity of their transactional patterns and boundaries, thus preventing further _________ of alternatives. 

• Decrease; exploration

• Increase; exploration

• Decrease; deterioration

• Increase; deterioration

Reciprocal Determinism shifts attention from?

• Historical facts to current problems

• Relationship outlook to environmental outlook

• Content to process

• Fiction to fact

Which of Minuchin's projects laid the cornerstone to Structural Family Therapy?

• Project X

• Stanford prison experiment project

• The Wiltwyck experiment project

• Project Runway

Subsystems are defined by _________ _________ and _________ ___ _________; in effect they regulate the amount of contact with other subsystems. 

• Effective communication ; rules for membership

• Strategic placement; rules for membership

• Interpersonal boundaries; rules for membership

• Effective communication; strategic use of communication

Change requires altering the process NOT?

• Discovering the culprit.

• Blaming the family

• Scrutinising the history

• Blaming the therapist

Who joined together to treat severely disturbed children with anorexia in the late 1960's?

• Ackerman and Bell

• Watzlawick and Framo

• Luigi Boscolo, Guiliano Prata, Gianfranco Cecchin & Mara Selvini-Palazzoli

In the 1960s, what publication helped popularise the family approach?

• Virginia's Satir's publication The Conjoint Family Therapy

• John Bell and Nathan Ackerman's collective work

• The carefully crafted structural view for working with a family

• All of the above

The aim of strategic therapy was to understand the historical root of commmuiction paterns.  

• True

• False

According to Structuralists, Families must be able to adapt to changing circumstances. It must have a ______ _______ of patterns and must be ________ enough to mobilise these new patterns in the face of impending change, if members are to exist as a family unit. The family must be able to ________ itself in ways that meet new circumstances, while at the same time taking care not to lose the continuity that provides a frame of rference for its members. 

• Multiple viewpoint; flexible; transform

• Sufficient range; flexible; transform

• Sufficient range; strategic; transform

• Constructed parent-child; strategic; transform

Structural Family Therapy run the risk of reinforcing Talcott Parson's view of the normal family: husbands perform an "instrumental" role (e.g., making managerial decisions) in the family, and the wives perform "expressive" roles (e.g., caring for the family's emotional needs). The above statment is _________ critique of Structural Family Therapy. One of the leading critics of Structural Family Therapy is Rachel ___________.

• Feminist; Selvini-Palozzoli

• Postmodern; Kim Berg

• Feminist; Hare-Mustin

• Postmodern; Maturana

Characterised by a systematic search for differences in behaviour, in relationships, in how various family members perceive and construe an event - and by efforts to uncover the connections that link family members and keep the system in homeostatic balance is ?

• Structural family therapy

• Strategic family therapy

• MRI Brief therapy

• Systemic family therapy

How many sessions were used for MRI Brief Family Therapy 

• 6

• 10

• 12

• 8

Clients symptom of an underlying disorder is the problem in strutegic therapy

• True

• False